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Chenopodium Vulvaria L. Saudy hollows on the Chesil Beach ; and 

 on waste ground with the next species. — C. Jicifulium L. Two plants 

 on waste ground between Weymouth and Radipole. This spot must 

 be close to that mentioned by G. S. Gibson, who seems to have been 

 the only other recorder of the species in West Dorset.— </m?ic«s covi- 

 ]n-essus Jacq, Occurs plentifully in a small pasture between the Fleet 

 and Wyke Regis. Mr. A. Bennett considered the specimens to be 

 probably the var. coarctatus Meyer, not before detected in Great 

 Britain. The Flora contains no certain station for this plant. Bell- 

 Salter wrote that it was "very common in the neighbourhood of 

 Poole," where, however, it has not been observed by later botanists. 

 — Scirpus pauciflorus Lightf. We have specimens from a swampy 

 spot by a spring towards the Bill of Portland. This summer the 

 place was dry, and the plant did not show. — Carex dioica L. Plen- 

 tiful in a bog about half-way between Wareham and Corfe Castle, 

 at a considerable distance from the two other recorded localities. 

 In many plants the barren spikes had fruits at the base ; a form 

 which would seem to be somewhat unusual, Dr. Boswell Syme, in 

 E. B. ed. iii., observing that he had never met with it, though Prof. 

 Babington appeared to have done so. This form was seen also last 

 year in Agglestone Bog. — James W. White and DAvm Fry. 



Additions to the known Flora of the South Ebudes, v.-c. 102. 

 — During the early days of last September, I paid a visit, for 

 botanical work, to the Island of Islay, which forms, with Jura, 

 Scarba, and Colonsay, the group of the South Inner Hebrides. 

 During my stay I was the guest of Dr. T. F. Gilmour, Port Ellen, 

 the local medical officer, to whom, for his valuable co-operation, 

 I was much indebted. Notwithstanding the advanced time of the 

 year, some 340 phanerogams, ferns, and fern-allies rewarded search. 

 Specimens of all of these were transmitted in the fresh state to Mr. 

 Arthur Bennett, F.L.S., who has placed me under obligation by his 

 kind help, and who informs me that my despatches include eleven 

 species not hitherto recorded as occurring in v.-c. 102. The species 

 are Buda marina Dum. var. 7ierflecta (Kindh.) ; Potentilla procwnbens 

 Sibth. ; Erythrmi jnilchella Fr., f, or var. ; Polygonum Raii Bab. ; 

 Ruinex conrjlomeratus Murr. ; Juncus alpinus Vill., which Mr. Bennett 

 says is "good alpinus" — genuinus of Buchenau, the monographer of 

 the genus — this is the first record of the plant as a Hebridean spe- 

 cies ; Sparganium minimum Fr. (?) ; Fotamogeton dccipiens Nolte ; 

 Cladium jamaicense Crantz, abundant, and growing 6 ft. high in 

 Loch Knock ; an interesting extension of the range of the species ; 

 Deschampsia discolor Pioem. & Schult., Loch Knock Marsh ; Festuca 

 rubra L. With the exception of an irregular belt of quartzite along 

 its eastern coast, Islay consists mainly of graphitic mica schist, 

 traversed in the middle of the island and from north to south by 

 beds of a limestone which is quarried and used for commercial 

 purposes. There are no mountains of consequence in Islay — the 

 highest not exceeding 1800 ft. The area of the island (150,000 

 acres) consists chiefly of moorland, yet Islay is the richest and 

 most productive of the Hebrides, and, apart from its coast-line, has 

 considerable variety of situation for its indigenous vegetation. — 



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